Retreats

Stepping Back to Move Forward

De: Geoffrey Schmitt

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In a culture that prizes momentum, visibility, and constant motion, retreat often feels like failure. But Scripture tells another story. Retreats: Stepping Back to Move Forward explores the surprising truth that some of God’s greatest work happens in hidden places. From the Sabbath rest of creation to Moses in Midian, Elijah in the cave, David in the wilderness, Jesus in the desert, and Paul in Arabia, retreat appears not as defeat but as divine preparation.

Drawing from biblical narrative, Kairos prison ministry, seasons of exhaustion, quiet mornings in Arkansas, and decades of pastoral reflection, Geoffrey “Willingheart” Schmitt reframes retreat as alignment. Whether through burnout, pruning, obscurity, or sacred pause, retreat becomes the place where identity deepens, calling clarifies, and faith matures.

Even the Church’s recent seasons of decline are viewed through the lens of pruning — with hopeful signs of renewal emerging, especially among younger believers. And in the final chapter, retreat reaches its deepest meaning: death itself becomes not surrender, but transition.

Honest, reflective, and pastorally grounded, this study invites readers to embrace stillness without fear.

Because retreat is not collapse.

It is recalibration.

It is alignment.